"I have come from the house of the Leonine One, I left there for the house of Isis, I saw her hidden mysteries in that she let me see the birth of the

Great God."

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COFFIN TEXT

Prior to the disappearance of their island, the Atlanteans are believed to have establishedcolonies both east and west of the motherland and it is to the myths, legends and ancientpractices of these places that we must now turn for further information concerning the"visitors from afar" who arrived on their shores.

However, care should be taken to distinguish between those major centres of Atlanteanreligion, learning and commerce that were well established prior to the cataclysm and thelesser known shores that provided a haven for Atlantean survivors fleeing the approachinginundation.

Several places have been suggested by scholars as possible Atlantean colonies basedon similarities in myths and customs.

The best known of all of these colonies is believed to be Egypt, whose history can betraced back many thousands of years. There are, however, conflicting reports andwide divergence of opinion regarding early civilization in pre-dynastic Egypt that needto be aired and analysed.

According to Cyril Aldred, during late Palaeolithic times the retreating ice-cap affectedthe climate of North Africa, causing it to become progressively drier. In Egypt the earlypre-dynastic period, calculated from around 5000BC to 3600BC, encompasses the Neo-lithic and Chalcolithic periods.

The Middle and Late pre-dynastic period is reckoned as 3600BC to 3200BC, after whichwe enter the realms of history.

From archaeololgical finds, we know that during the Amratian period there was an influxof broad-headed (brachycephalic) peoples, the indigenous population of Hamites belong-ing to the long-headed (dolichocephalic) type. All the evidence points to the fact thatthis spread of foreign influence in the fourth millennium BC came from the north.

Spanuth agrees with this, asserting that in the Egypt of 8000-9000BC there was noEgyptian state, no temples with inscriptions and no papyrus texts.

The Nile Valley was uninhabited (the first few remains in the area date from thefifth to sixth millennia BC and were found on the nearby heights) while the Libyans make their first appearance in the records of Merneptah around 1227BC.

In Greece there was no Athenian armies. Nor had the Bronze Age made its appearance in weaponry or artefacts. And yet all these things are mentioned byPlato, and confirmed by other sources, so what is the answer?

According to Herodotus, who received his information from the Egyptian priests, their written history dated back 11,340 years before his era, or nearly 14,000 years prior to the present. A degree of support for this can be found in IgnatiusDonnelly's quotation of other source.

"At the epoch of Menes," says Winchell, "the Egyptians were alreadya civilized and numerous people. Manetho tells us that Athotis, theson of this first king, Menes, built the palace at Memphis; that hewas a physician, and left anatomical books. All these statements imply that even at this early period the Egyptians were in a highstate of civilization." (Winchell's PREADAMITES, p.120.) "In the timeof Menes the Egyptians had long been architects, sculptors, painters,mythologists, and theologians." Professor Richard Owen says:"Egypt is recorded to have been a civilized and governed communityBEFORE the time of Menes. The pastoral community of a group ofnomad families, as portrayed in the Pentateuch, may be admitted asan early step in civilization. But how far in advance of this stage is a nation administered by a kingly government, consisting of grades ofsociety, with divisions of labor, of which one kind, assigned to thepriesthood, was to record or chronicle the names and dynasties ofthe kings, the duration and chief events of their reigns!" ErnestRenan points out that "Egypt at the beginning appears mature, old,and entirely without mythical and heroic ages, as if the country hadnever known youth. Its civilization has no infancy, and its art noarchaic period. The civilization of the Old Monarchy did not appearwith infancy. It was already mature."

The Alsatian philosopher R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz assembled a great dealof Egyptian material over a period of ten years, following a sojourn offifteen years at Luxor (1936-51).

His stepdaughter, Lucie Lamy, made detailed measurements and drawingsof the stones and statuary of the great temple at Luxor that showed that the ancient Egyptians possessed a hitherto unsuspected knowledge of mathematics and cosmic form, which she later incorporated into her bookEGYPTIAN MYSTERIES.

Schwaller de Lubicz himself was the author of several published works, notably LE TEMPLE DE L'HOMME, which also deals with the more esotericaspects of early Egyptian culture.

The ancient Egyptians possessed a solar, lunar and Sothic calendar.In fact, Sothis, the binary star we know as Sirius,featured strongly in theirearliest history.

It is my fervent belief that the Egyptians derived this information from theAtlantean priests, which goes to confirm the standard of knowledge thatthe scientific community of the Old Country had attained.

"The Sothic cycle is established on the coincidence every 1460years of the VAGUE YEAR of 365 days with the SOTHIC (OR SIRIAN) year of3651/4 days. All civil acts were dated according to the vague year,composed of exactly 360 days plus the five epagomenal daysconsecrated to the NETERS: Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nephthys and Horus.

The Sirian, or FIXED YEAR, was established according to the heliacal rising of Sirius, yet the interval between two heliacal risings ofSirius corresponds neither to the tropical year, which is shorter, nor

TO THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE MOVEMENT OFSIRIUS ON THE OTHER, THE POSITION OF THE SUN WITH RESPECT TO SIRIUS ISDISPLACED IN THE SAME DIRECTION, ALMOST EXACTLY TO THE SAME EXTENT.

Calculations established by astronomers have demonstrated thatbetween 4231 and 2231 BC, the approximate duration of the reign of the Bull, HAP, the Sirian year was almost identical to our Julianyear of 365 1/4 days. This period would cover the entire AncientEmpire, "and we cannot but admire the greatness of a science capableof discovering such a coincidence because SIRIUS IS THE ONLY STAR AMONGTHE "FIXED STARS" WHICH ALLOWS THIS CYCLE. It can, therefore, be supposedthat Sirius plays the role of a center for the circuit of our entire solarsystem".

Enter another character in the DRAMATIS PERSONAE of the Atlantis drama, and it is ancient Egypt we have to thank forthe preservation of this knowledge. Sirius was known as theGREAT PROVIDER and, as such, was constantly evoked in pyramid texts:

"Isis comes to thee [Osiris], joyous in thy love;

Your seed rises in her, penetrating [spd.t]* like Sirius [spd.t]*.

The penetrating [spd] Horus comes forth from thee in his

name of Horus-who-is-in-Sirius.

*[spd. and spd.t] represent the Egyptian hieroglyphics for Sothis(Sirius), the 't' indicating the feminine gender.

On a number of occasions Cayce suggested that the Pyrenees were a place of refuge for the Atlanteans. This makes sense to me, since the mountains would have offered the protection of a higher elevation close to the Atlantic. Also there's the mystery of the Basque people. Where did they come from?

Although a history is claimed for Egypt that dates back to 36,620 BC,the Pharaonic calendar is established as being introduced only in 4240BC.

The five epagomenal days are related to the birth of the five Neter and,since the whole arrangement revolves around Sirius, the only star toreturn periodically every 365 1/4 days, does this imply that whicheverenergies were responsible for the loss of the Atlantean civilization were orchestrated from Sirius?

Should this prove to be the case, it would be reasonable to inquire as to whether the five Neters were, as Donnelly and others suggest,Atlantean leaders, priests/priestesses or leading personalities on theAtlantean political scene, or were they from somewhere else?

When I wrote my epic poem THE STORY OF ISIS AND OSIRIS, I referredto the Egyptian god Ra as relating to the Sothism system and not to our own Sun, the latter being represented by Ra's legendary "eye".

It was not until I encountered the following statement and other aspects of Schwaller de Lubicz's work, that many of my own "memories" began tofall into place.

"It took our own discoveries in atomism and astronomy to suggest yet another characteristic of Sirius which coincides with what we are be-ginning to know about the atomic nucleus, made up of a positron ( agiant star of very weak density) accompanying a neutron whose volumeis exceedingly small in relation to the atom, but where all its weight is concentrated (a dwarf star of incredible density)........

The double star of Sirius - which for Pharaonic Egypt played the role of a central sun to our entire solar system - today suggests the ex-istence of a cosmic system of atomic structure whose NUCLEUS isthis "Great Provider", the Sothis [spd.t] of the ancients.

There might well be a need to revise our cosmology in the not-so-distant future."

Details of my studies of Sirius, from an astronomical viewpoint, is tobe found in my books THE LION PEOPLE and ANCIENT EGYPT-THE SIRIUS CONNECTION.

The fact that the whole historical period of Pharaonic Egypt the heliacal rising of Sirius, which marked the New year's Day, alwaystook place when the Sun was in the constellation of Leo confirms my suspicion that the arrival of the first colonists from Atlantis would have been connected with both the constellation of the LIONand the binary system of the fixed star Sirius (longitude 13Deg.34' of Cancer).

Schwaller de Lubicz also sees Sirius as having some bearing on theclimate of our planet and comments on the fact that climatologicalvariations, if only a few degrees, can affect all life on Earth.

A drop in temperature drives peoples towards other, less hostile zones, while higher temperatures witness the birth of new plant andanimal life.

Some of the principal movements within our solar system are well known, others not so and, since climatological modifications appearto obey sidereal variations, he sees Sirius as being responsible for both our climate and that of the entire solar system.

It may be deduced from a study of the Sothian calendar that thePrecession of Equinoxes, the discovery of which was hitherto attri-buted to Hipparchus in 134BD, was known to the ancient Egyptians(and Atlanteans), the heliacal rising of Sirius being associated withthe beginning of the Nile's flooding and the birth of Ra in the Zodiacalsign of Leo.

"Yet it was always NUN, the primordial, indeterminate state (or ocean) which receives the characteristic impulse of the celestialinfluence, and this impulse varies according to the PrecessionalMonth.

Thus it is that Pharaonic prehistory was dominated by The TwinsSHU and TEFNUT, whose nature consists in separating Heaven fromEarth. This has been interpreted as representing the two crowns ofthe Empire, as yet dualized. At that time there existed the kingdomof the South with its double capital, NEKHEN and NEKHEB, and thekingdom of the North with its dual capital, DEP and PE. Thevestiges of this period show a pronounced double character and it iscertainly at this time that the Heliopolitan mystery of primordialdualization was revealed.

At Memphis, under the Ancient Empire, there was the domination of Hap, the Bull, who precipitated celestial fire intoterrestrial form. The Bull, the great NETER of the historical periodextending from 4380 to 2200BC, commands the Cretan civilizationas well.

From the Middle Empire to the beginning of the Christian era,we see the domination of Amon the Ram. It is in Thebes, under thepredominance of Amon, that the generating fire is "extracted", so tospeak, from its terrestrial gangue-matrix, Khonsu, by the grace of Djehuti (Thoth), master of Hermopolis.

NUN is invariable, while the receptive milieux, or environments,are generative, and hence feminine. They are successively: NUT inHeliopolis, SEKHMET-HATHOR in Memphis and then MUT in Thebes.

What was elaborated at Heliopolis was Shu and Tefnut ascreation; in Memphis it becomes Nefertum, issue of the couplePtah-Sekhmet, while at Thebes, the product of Amon and Mut is Khonsu.

But succession means generation and not juxtaposition, although the philosophical legend must situate the principles as if coexistingpersonages were involved.

Finally, toward the year 60 BC, with the end of the political empire of Egypt under Cleopatra, our Christian era of Pisces begins."

What is below is as that which is above, and what is above is as thatwhich is below, in order to perform the Miracle of one thing only.

And just as all things have been and have come forth from One, soall things have been born of this sole-singular thing, by adaptation.

The Sun is its Father, the Moon is its Mother and the Wind hascarried it in its belly; the Earth is its nurse. The Father of the entireTeleme of the whole world is here. Its force of puissance is entire if it be converted into Earth.

Thou shalt separate the Earth from the Fire, the Subtile from theDense, gently, with great ingenuity. It rises from the Earth to Heaven,and again descends into Earth, and it receives the strength of thingsabove and below. By this means thou shalt have the glory of all theWorld, and through it, all obscurity will flee from thee.

Theis is the strong Strength of all strength, for it will vanquish anysubtile thing and penetrate any solid thing.

Thus has the world been created.

From this there shall be and there will come forth marvellousadaptations, the means of which is here.

Therefore, I have been called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing thethree parts of the Philosophy of the entire world.

What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun isaccomplished and perfected."

These words have both scientific and metaphysical connotations, such as the idea of the oneness of the universe and the unity ofall matter, the mirror-like similarity between the quantum and subatomic worlds and the greater univese, the waves that gene-rate all substances, the mastery of atomic power, and the cycle of learning through which all living creatures progress - the re-finer's fire of experience - which ultimately leads us back along the road to the One.

The Greek philosopher and scientist Democritus (c.460-370 BC)expounded a theory that the universe is made up of minute particles (atoms), multifariously arranged to account for the differing properties of matter.

Moschus the Phoenician is believed to have communicated this ancient knowledge to Democritus. Moschus' atomic theory, how-ever, was nearer the truth, in that it also accommodated the concept of the divisibility of the atom.